MUTUAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mutual mean? 

• MUTUAL (adjective)
  The adjective MUTUAL has 2 senses:

1. common to or shared by two or more parties

2. concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return

  Familiarity information: MUTUAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUTUAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common to or shared by two or more parties

Synonyms:

common; mutual

Context example:

the mutual interests of management and labor

Similar:

shared (have in common; held or experienced in common)

Derivation:

mutuality (a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups))

mutuality (a reciprocality of sentiments)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return

Synonyms:

mutual; reciprocal

Context example:

reciprocal privileges at other clubs

Similar:

bilateral (affecting or undertaken by two parties)

trilateral (involving three parties)

correlative (expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation)

interactional; interactive (capable of acting on or influencing each other)

reciprocative; reciprocatory (moving alternately backward and forward)

reciprocative; reciprocatory (given or done or owed to each other)

Derivation:

mutuality (a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups))

mutuality; mutualness (a reciprocality of sentiments)

 Context examples 

They had talked, and they had been silent; he had reasoned, she had ridiculed; and they had parted at last with mutual vexation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mutual recrimination passed between them: they parted in anger, and were never reconciled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His evils seemed to lessen, her own advantages to increase, their mutual good to outweigh every drawback.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

If it don't act well, or don't quite accord with our mutual convenience, he can easily go to the right-about.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A solution that is reconstituted from a frozen pre-mixed form intended for intravenous administration simultaneously with an established compatible maintenance infusion drug by a mutual intravenous access.

(Frozen Premix Intravenous Piggyback Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Their mutual friend answered for the satisfaction which a visit from Miss Elliot would give Mrs Smith, and Anne therefore lost no time in going.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This one, the Earth-sized Kepler-80g, and four of its neighboring planets form what is called a resonant chain - where planets are locked by their mutual gravity in a rhythmic orbital dance.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

We parted at last by mutual consent—happy for me had we never met!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Clerval continued talking for some time about our mutual friends and his own good fortune in being permitted to come to Ingolstadt.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A solution intended for intravenous administration simultaneously with an established compatible maintenance infusion drug by a mutual intravenous access.

(Intravenous Piggyback Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)